The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-09-06
Late Foreign News.

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members of Parliament held a meet
ing to-day and resolved 10 supper
the Irish National League, as the.
were satisfied that the organization
was purely q political one. Twent,
other liberal members wrote a lette
expressing sympathy with the pur
pose Of the meeting. There wer'
no party leaders present.
Minneapolis, Mimi, August 25.-
A Winnipeg special says; Letters
from Frazier and Stewart, dated
Fort Chippewyan, July 9th, state
that they reached that point after
many hardships, forest fires being
numerous and destructive. The
restitution at Fort Chippewyan last
winter was terrible and several
cases of cannibalsm are reported.
One old woman at Little Red River
admits having killed and eaten her
whole family. Starvation and can
nihalism are also reported from Nc
Kenzie river.
London, August 23.-At Malta,
during the past twenty-four hours,
there were nine new cases of cholera
and four deaths.
Poughkeepsie On. ~, August
lS.-Professor o. 5. Fowler, the
noted phrenologist and lecturer, died
at his residence near Sharon station,
Conn, this morning.
London, Aug. 26.-In an inter-
view with a representative of the
press to-day, Gladstone, in reply to
the Question as TO whether he ex-
peeled the defeat of the Govern
ment tonight said: mo, we don't
expect to do that, but the fact that
one year ago the Government major
ity was 10, while now the most
sanguine Conservatives only antici-
pate a majority of 60, on proclaim
ing the league, shows what tremen-
dous change has come over the face
of the country. The change is COM
ing more rapidly than many people
imagine and in fact quite fast
enough" Gladstone seemed to be
in high spirits and declared he was
in excellent health.
Berlin, Aug. l6.-Emperor Will
liam is so i'll that it has been ar
ranged that the King of Saxony
shall represent him at the Konigs-
berg maneuvers. The official bull
letin says the Emperor caught cold
during the recent sudden change in
the weather and that the chief symp-
toms in his present indisposition are
occasional rheumatic pains.
London, Aug. l9.-Balfour, Chief
Secretary for Ireland, announced in
the House of Commons this after
noon that the Government had pro-
claimed the IRISH National League.
He said the league was proclaimed
as a dangerous association, under
Section of the Irish crimes act
amendment bill, recently made
law. Cheers and counter-cheers. |
The Government had thus taken the
power conferred upon them by the
statute to prohibit and suppress the
league. Continuing, Balfour said:
There are two sub-heads of the
sixth section of the act mentioned
in the proclamation which declare
as follows: "Whereas, we are salts
fed that there exists in Ireland an
association known as the Irish
National League, which in parts of
Ireland promotes and incites acts of
violence and intimidation. A
voice: ats a lie. No branch of
the league is engaged in such
work. "
Sexton asked whether the sole
ground for the proclamation was
that the league simply was an asso-
citation tending to interfere with The
execution of the law.
Balfour in reply read the terms Of
the proclamation.
Harrington asked whether Balfour
was aware that nearly all the
branches of the league were en-
gagged in registration work; whether
he knew that the league was the
only association opposed to the Con-
seryatives' work, and whether the
proclamation was intended to para
1--we The efforts of the league TO the
advantage of the Conservatives on
the new register.
Bafour replied that no branch of
the league whose work was confined
to registration would be impeded in
its work,
Replying further to Sexton Bal
four said until the Viceroy issued
an order regarding particular dis
trict the proclamation would have
no force.
The subject was then dropped
and the House went into committee
on the land allotment bill,
London, Aug. 19-The Govern
ment has decided to proclaim the
Irish National League, and the Lord
Lieutenant has to-day issued his
proclamation. They have further
more, in obedience to the clamor of
the landlords, practically abandoned
the land bill by accepting the fatal
amendments of the Lords, and as a
result of both of these steps they
have broken up the LiberaI-Union-
list alliance, and all the Liberal